Microsoft’s Inspire conference is the main global Microsoft partner conference held annually and attended by roughly 16,000 people from partners across the globe. This year the conference was held in the scorching desert at various locations across Las Vegas. Inspire 2018 brought a fresh perspective as Microsoft merged the conference together with its own internal seller conference, ‘Ready’. This meant that there were roughly 40,000 Microsoft employees and partner representatives in Las Vegas, all keen to collaborate and understand Microsoft’s strategy moving forward.